Panel Discussion – Committee for Society, Arts & Letters
Translation and the sound of ancient Greek music: The second of two panel discussions exploring how the sounds of Greek poetry influence their modern translation into both words and music.
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Prof John Bennet, “Never the twain shall meet: reflections on text and image in Minoan Crete”
The world of Neopalatial Crete was visually rich; it was also a literate world. Yet these two categories, as we define them, never combine in the same field.
The Work of the BSA: 2024 Annual Open Lecture London
Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens, Tuesday 6th February 2024, King’s College London.
The Work of the BSA: 2024 Annual Open Lecture 2024 Athens
Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens, Thursday 15th February 2024, the Archaeological Society (Lecture Hall), 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens.
January 25, 2024
University of Athens, Hellenic Parliament & BSA Conference: Το 1821 στην Πρώτη Σελίδα: Η Ελληνική Επανάσταση στον Διεθνή και Εγχώριο Τύπο
The Philhellenism project goes to Parliament!! Rebecca Sweetman (BSA Director), Roderick Beaton (BSA Chair), and Michalis Sotiropoulos (1821 Fellow in Modern Greek Studies) will be speaking in the conference Το […]
Prof Gerasimos Tsourapas “Greek-Turkish Relations and Migration Power Politics in the Mediterranean”
The emerging international relations literature on states’ migration diplomacy traditionally centres on how cross-border mobility affects, and is affected by, governmental …
Prof. Amy Bogaard – “Archaeology and ‘eco-cultural’ heritage: case studies from Greece and beyond”
The climate and biodiversity crises are prompting new conversations about the archive of human experience we can draw upon to address them. Archaeology in Greece…
Dr Stamatoula Panagakou, “Aspects of the Political Philosophy of the British Idealist Philosopher Bernard Bosanquet”
Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) was one of the most important British Idealist philosophers. Author of numerous books which cover topics from logic, metaphysics and aesthetics to ethics, religion and political philosophy…
Panel Discussion chaired by Prof Edith Hall, “Mythical Retellings: Reimagining the women of Greek Myth”
Amid the recent popularity of fiction inspired by Greek mythology, authors Claire Heywood, Jennifer Saint, and Susan Stokes-Chapman discuss the opportunities and challenges which come with retelling ancient myths for a modern audience. Are the original myths expanded……
Professor Amy Smith “Redressing Aphrodite on Sir William Hamilton’s Meidias hydria”
In anticipation of the Meidias hydria’s first return to Athens since its unspecified journey to Etruscan shores in antiquity, Professor Smith reevaluates the message of the Meidias hydria, with a focus on its central figure…